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The following events took place on May 4. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 51 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1256

  The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
• 1415

  Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
• 1436

  Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
• 1471

  Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales.
• 1493

  Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
• 1626

  Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
• 1675

  King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
• 1686

  The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines.
• 1776

  Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
• 1799

  Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
• 1814

  Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
• 1814

  King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism.
• 1836

  Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians
• 1859

  The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
• 1865

  Surrender of the Confederate departments of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana at Citronelle, Alabama.
• 1869

  The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
• 1871

  The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• 1886

  Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
• 1902

  Eight fishermen lose their lives in Galway Bay, Ireland in a drowning tragedy.
• 1904

  The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
• 1904

  Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England.
• 1910

  The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
• 1912

  Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
• 1919

  May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
• 1926

  The United Kingdom general strike begins.
• 1932

  In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
• 1942

  World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
• 1945

  World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army.
• 1945

  World War II: German surrender at Lüneburg Heath, the North German Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
• 1945

  World War II: Denmark is granted liberation, when Germany was forced withdraw from Denmark thus ending five years of occupation.

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